Wearing, Sadie

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gender and feminist theory;aging and subjectivity in literature, culture and media;feminist film theory;gender and feminist theory;representation

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Sadie Wearing's research and teaching interests are in the critical analysis of literary, visual and media culture with specific interest in representations of aging, temporality and memory in both historical and contemporary contexts. Her work is concerned with questions of the political implications of deployments of cultural understandings of time, memory and the body. Specifically she examines the ways in which literary and cinematic narratives articulate contested cultural processes including questions of public and private memory, national identity, heritage and belongings, gender sexuality and aging. She has written on the questions raised by adaptations of literary and biographical texts and the specificity of cinematic forms of memory and forgetting, and at how these might be understood in relation to postcolonial theory, postfeminism and contemporary formations of celebrity. Her recent work examines the ways in which cinema, literature and popular culture reflect and complicate wider cultural assumptions about aging, memory and temporality, and the complexity of the ways in which aging subjectivities, constructions and embodiments are produced and reproduced.

2016

Perrons, Diane and
Lacey, Nicola and
Phillips, Anne and
Wearing, Sadie and
Ashtiany, Saphieh and
Biressi, Anita and
Carter, Cynthia and
Chakrabarti, Shami and
Chinkin, Christine and
Couldry, Nick and
Criado-Perez, Caroline and
DeLargy, Pamela and
Dobbs, Linda and
Harris, Scarlett and
Himmelweit, Susan and
Jenkins, Kate and
Kabeer, Naila and
Lovenduski, Joni and
Manning, Alan and
Murray, Rainbow and
Negra, Diane and
Neitzert, Eva and
Orgad, Shani and
Plomien, Ania and
Sen, Purna and
Spicer, Harriet and
Starmer, Keir
(2016)
Confronting gender inequality: findings from the LSE commission on gender, inequality and power
London School of Economics and Political Science, Gender Institute, London, UK.

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